Morning!
I am visiting the Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB (Georgia, USA) in three weeks time and I’ve just heard that they are in the process of disposing of 29 airframes from external display due to funding issues.
An F-94A, YMC-130H, F-104A and WB-57F already seem to have gone.
Does anyone know which other airframes are going, how fast they’re going, and where they are going to?
Hopefully these rare airframes have a future at another museum?
As it all comes under USAF control, I did wonder if it is actually the main museum at Wright-Patterson which is removing the more interesting airframes from external display, but this is only a suggestion.
Cheers
Alan
By: Bazza333 - 25th March 2013 at 17:23
I saw the Lightning at Pima last October. I’d also seen it many years ago at Robins but in those days it looked very sad and was basically dumped in a far corner out back.
By: philip turland - 25th March 2013 at 16:17
can i have the AT-11 please
By: RedRedWine - 25th March 2013 at 13:39
Shame about the Credible Sport, that was a very interesting piece of history which I don’t imagine will ever be repeated. Like something from an imaginative movie.
By: David Burke - 25th March 2013 at 11:51
The museum has looked at the condition of the airframes and come to the conclusion that a number of them will not survive in the long term.
A number of the larger aircraft will be scrapped -the Credible Sport has gone for ABDR and the B-52 is due to be chopped.
By: Willow - 25th March 2013 at 09:19
I’ve now found a full list of disposals:-
B-52D Stratofortress
WB-57F Canberra*
RB-69A Neptune
C-60A Lodestar
C-119C Flying Boxcar
EC-121K Constellation
C-130H(YM) Credible Sport*
EC-135N Stratotanker
F-84E Thunderjet
F-86H Sabre*
F-89J Scorpion
F-94A Starfire*
F-100F Super Sabre
RF-101C Voodoo
F-101B Voodoo
F-104A Starfighter*
F-105G Thunderchief
F-4C Phantom II
TH-13M Sioux*
HH-34J Choctaw
HH-43A Huskie
TG-4A Yankee Doodle
AT-11 Kansan
T-28A Trojan
T-38A Talon
T-39A Sabreliner
U-4 Aero Commander*
X-25A Gyro-copter
BAE Mk. 53 Lightning*
Missiles being removed:
CGM-13 Mace*
GTD-21B
AGM-28B Houndog
*Already removed
Quite a major downsizing. Such a shame.
The Lightning moved to Pima last year, I believe.
Alan
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